A progress review on solid‐state LiDAR and nanophotonics‐based LiDAR sensors

N Li, CP Ho, J Xue, LW Lim, G Chen… - Laser & Photonics …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Light detection and ranging (LiDAR) sensors enable precision sensing of an object in 3D.
LiDAR technology is widely used in metrology, environment monitoring, archaeology, and …

Aluminium nitride integrated photonics: a review

N Li, CP Ho, S Zhu, YH Fu, Y Zhu, LYT Lee - Nanophotonics, 2021 - degruyter.com
Integrated photonics based on silicon has drawn a lot of interests, since it is able to provide
compact solution for functional devices, and its fabrication process is compatible with the …

Integrated lasers on silicon at communication wavelength: a progress review

N Li, G Chen, DKT Ng, LW Lim, J Xue… - Advanced Optical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
With the emerging trend of big data and internet of things, silicon (Si) photonics technology
has been developed and applied for high‐bandwidth data transmission. Contributed by the …

Widely-tunable, narrow-linewidth III-V/silicon hybrid external-cavity laser for coherent communication

H Guan, A Novack, T Galfsky, Y Ma, S Fathololoumi… - Optics express, 2018 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate a III-V/silicon hybrid external cavity laser with a tuning range larger than 60
nm at the C-band on a silicon-on-insulator platform. A III-V semiconductor gain chip is …

Silicon photonics-based high-energy passively Q-switched laser

N Singh, J Lorenzen, M Sinobad, K Wang, AC Liapis… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Chip-scale, high-energy optical pulse generation is becoming increasingly important as
integrated optics expands into space and medical applications where miniaturization is …

Watt-class silicon photonics-based optical high-power amplifier

N Singh, J Lorenzen, K Wang, MA Gaafar… - Nature …, 2025 - nature.com
High-power amplifiers are critical components in optical systems spanning from long-range
optical sensing and optical communication systems to micromachining and medical surgery …

Monolithically integrated erbium-doped tunable laser on a CMOS-compatible silicon photonics platform

N Li, D Vermeulen, Z Su, ES Magden, M **n… - Optics …, 2018 - opg.optica.org
A tunable laser source is a crucial photonic component for many applications, such as
spectroscopic measurements, wavelength division multiplexing (WDM), frequency …

Erbium-doped TeO2-coated Si3N4 waveguide amplifiers with 5  dB net gain

HC Frankis, HM Mbonde, DB Bonneville… - Photonics …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate 5 dB net gain in an erbium-doped tellurium-oxide-coated silicon nitride
waveguide. The amplifier design leverages the high refractive index and high gain in erbium …

Emerging and perspectives in microlasers based on rare-earth ions activated micro-/nanomaterials

Z Chen, G Dong, G Barillaro, J Qiu, Z Yang - Progress in Materials Science, 2021 - Elsevier
Microlasers have drawn considerable attention for applications in future optoelectronic
nanoscience and nanotechnology, owing to the capability of scaling physical dimension of …

A silicon photonic data link with a monolithic erbium-doped laser

N Li, M **n, Z Su, ES Magden, N Singh, J Notaros… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
To meet the increasing demand for data communication bandwidth and overcome the limits
of electrical interconnects, silicon photonic technology has been extensively studied, with …